I'll Show You Bored!

Earthquakes feel different after you get married. I’ve lived in southern California my whole life, so I’ve experienced my fair share of the old shake shakes (that’s what we all call them here), but the one that we just had today felt different. Not in that they shake differently like the type of shaking from a thrust fault versus a transform, strike-slip fault, but it feels different when you got a little more on the line when the world starts giving you the old shake shakes, you know?

I’ve talked before about just how fast information moves on the internet. Today, that was mostly a good thing. Celebrity twitter and facebook friend updates about the earthquake aside, it was nice to be able to go online and find out what was happening really quickly. I learned another fact in that process: people be freakin’ stupid, yo!

I’m not kidding. Go to ANY news website and read just about ANY article…skim down to the comment section and see democracy at work. More and more I see why we have a republic, not a pure democracy. When you let everyone sound off, you get a whole lot of ridiculous crap. You know that old adage: Opinions are like assholes…



Do we really need to sound off on the emotions we are experiencing as readers of a story? And even if we do need to allow for such things…and that is a HUGE if…but IF we are to allow them, lets explore the emotions chosen by the readers. Intrigued? Sure. I can get behind that. Sad? Definitely. It’s a huge quake that probably did some serious damage in Mexico…but only 9% feel this way? Thrilled I MIGHT be able to understand, like I think it’s in the neighborhood of the emotion that people might be feeling, but it’s still wrong…but Furious? Bored? Laughing?

Lets get it together, huh?



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